1812 - Charles Dickens born
1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder born
1878 - Pope Pius IX dies
1885 - Sinclair Lewis born
1908 - Larry "Buster" Crabbe born
1920 - Eddie Bracken born
1923 - Keefe Brasselle born
1945 - Plans are being drawn up by London, Washington and Moscow for the final phase of the war against Germany.
1960 - James Spader born
1962 - Garth Brooks born
1964 - Four members of the British hit band, the Beatles, arrive in New York at the start of their first tour of the United States.
1966 - Chris Rock born
1974 - Prime Minister Edward Heath announces a general election and appeals to the miners to suspend their planned strike. Also al ittle-known group calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army says its members are responsible for kidnapping 19-year-old newspaper heiress Patty Hearst.
1978 - Ashton Kutcher born
1985 - Tina Majorino born
1987 - South Korean police make hundreds of arrests in the country's biggest demonstrations for six years.
1992 - Ministers from the 12 countries in the European Community take another step towards political and economic union.
2005 - Britain's Ellen MacArthur becomes the fastest person to sail solo around the world.
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